Owls in familiar position

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Owls in familiar position

During each of the past two football seasons, Florida Atlantic finished the exact opposite way it started. In both cases, the Owls recovered with hot streaks down the stretch and became the first Sun Belt school to ever win bowl games in back-to-back years.

Now FAU (1-4, 1-1 Sun Belt) is eyeing another late-season run with UL (4-2, 2-0) next on the schedule at 4 p.m. Saturday at Cajun Field.

"It puts your back against the wall, and evidently that's what has helped our football team be able to win consistently during that time," FAU coach Howard Schnellenberger said of his program's recent slow starts. "But just because it has happened doesn't mean that it's going to happen again, but we're going to work like hell to make it happen."